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Genius! Genius! Genius!

Hello and welcome to Evil Genius to show where we take celebrated figures from history

and make you choose evil or genius. It's the PTSD of Hero Worship.

Here we take your heroes and discover that some of them were STDs, metaphorically speaking.

Some literally, they were certainly dicks.

Take a grubby dive through our archives and you might find yourself not wanting to wear trainers.

Do you know why? Because Adidas' la, the weirdo behind Adidas, released a range of

sport shoes called Ready, Mine Camp. I'm not joking.

A range of trainers called my ideology. It's just so comfy.

You're going to love our fascism sweatpants. Silence!

Or what about Mr Kellogg? Yeah, okay, he built a billion dollar cereal industry, but my god,

did that strange bully of a man love shoving things right up his body?

Snap crackle. Oh, what was that Harvey?

Very, very odd per obsessed character. Very strange man.

Well, today it's the man at the centre, arguably patient one of the statues controversy.

The colonialist Cecil Rhodes. If you've heard anyone going on about whether statues of

debatable men from history should come down, this is your boy, the original gangster.

The statue of him at Oriol College is one that's been in the news a lot.

Many people want it down. You might not know much about him, and nor do I.

What do we do about history? This tiny topic that we're going to sort out today.

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